To:A. I. RYKOV

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ToComrade Rykov, Presidium of the Supreme Economic
Council

Copy:People’s Commissariat for Foreign TradeCopy:People’s Commissariat for Foreign AffairsCopy:All-Russia Extraordinary CommissionCopy:Central Peat Administration (Glavtorf)

ComradeRadchenkorequests:

1)arrangementsfor a trip on behalf of Glavtorf by 10
staff members (with warranties from ComradeRadchenkoand ComradeSmilga) to study peat extraction in Finland,
Sweden, Denmark and Canada;

2)allocationof the necessary amount of money for this   purpose;

3)organisationof the trip in such a way that three
persons should leave by May 1, and the rest by June 1.

Please,have this business set in motion urgently, butput Glavtorf under an obligation to submit a detailed report
of the work done, after the trip is over.

V.Ulyanov(Lenin)Chairman, Council of People’s Commissars

P.S.I insist on the need for the utmost speed in this
business, and be sure to inform me of theactualfulfilment.

[1]TheP.S. is in Lenin’s hand.—Ed.